Showing posts with label O-Pee-Chee Stickers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label O-Pee-Chee Stickers. Show all posts

Friday, July 26, 2013

1988 O-Pee-Chee Super Star #9

Card Review: 6.4 I think I slightly prefer the Topps version of this card.  The only difference is the logo  over Wallach's right shoulder.  Obviously the backs are different too, but these all have different backs. The "Super Star" subset was much smaller than the sticker set, so the "Super Star" backs all show up on multiple stickers.  I've seen at least six different variations with the Topps Super Star Wallach.  I don't know if it was completely random, or if it's always the same 6 (or whatever) stickers that have the Wallach Super Star back.  My hope is that it's completely random, because that would mean there is a possibility of a Wallach sticker with a Wallach Super Star back.  Then I'd be left with the welcomed debate as whether to count it as a '88 Sticker, '88 Super Star, or both.

Fun Facts
*This is a rare example of my only copy of this card having been sent by a reader.  Thanks to Max of "The Starting Nine."  Of course, at some point I expect to have more than one, so I'll go ahead and amend this to say, ....rare example of my first copy of this card having been sent by a reader.

Number of this card in my collection: 1
2014 update: 4
2015 update: n/a
2016 update: n/a
2017 update: 5
2018 update: 6
2019 update: n/a
2020 update: n/a
2021 update: 7
2022 update: 8




Monday, July 15, 2013

1984 O-Pee-Chee Stickers #94



Card Review: 7.5  I prefer the back of the Topps sticker to this one.  The Topps sticker has a lot more red ink and just looks more legitimate to me.  The fronts are identical.  The photo of Wallach used for this sticker would have made for a great base card had Topps used it in '84.

Number of this card in my collection: 1
2014 update: n/a
2015 update: n/a
2016 update: n/a
2017 update: n/a
2018 update: 2

Friday, June 21, 2013

1985 O-Pee-Chee Stickers




Card Review: 4.0  I don't have any preference between this and it's Topps counterpart.  It's an interesting picture though.  One Topps probably could have found a way to use for a base card.  From 1983-1986 Topps more or less used the same style of photo for it's Wallach card in the base set.  While '83 and '85 may be my two favorite cards ever made, the '84 and '86 are kind of bland.  This photo would have looked much better in place of the one's used on either of those cards.



Number of this card in my collection:  2

Monday, February 25, 2013

1983 O-Pee-Chee Stickers #257




















Card Review: 7.5  There are more variations than normal between the OPC and Topps versions of the '83 sticker.  Chiefly, the color on the back.  OPC went with red ink and the Topps used blue.  I prefer the red.

Number of this card in my collection: 2
2014 update: 4

Friday, February 22, 2013

1986 O-Pee-Chee Stickers #82

Card Review: Incomplete (4.6)  I can't say for certain, but it appears this sticker was cut in half to be sold as an individual card.  I'm not sure how I feel about that.  I know I don't like it, but I'm not sure to what degree.  The '86 Topps Sticker comes with two stickers attached as one "card."  Who would take the time to so meticulously cut all the stickers?  I really hope it was done by OPC in some sort of direct to dealer type excess product dump at the end of the year.  I hate to think of some poor guy carefully cutting all these stickers only to sell them for a couple of pennies 25 years after the fact.

Number of this card in my collection: 2
2014 update: n/a
2015 update: n/a
2016 update: n/a
2017 update: n/a
2018 update: n/a 
2019 update: 4







Wednesday, February 20, 2013

1988 O-Pee-Chee Stickers #85




















Card Review: 3.6  I slightly prefer the O-Pee-Chee to the Topps.  The only real difference is the logo on the back, I just like that circle OPC logo better than the Topps.  Otherwise they're the same.  I've got 2 of these and they both have George Brett on the back.  I don't know if that's random or by design.  I do know that the "Super Star" card of Wallach has different stickers on the back, so I'm guessing it's random.

Number of this card in my collection: 2
2014 update: n/a
2015 update: n/a
2016 update: n/a
2017 update: n/a
2018 update: n/a
2019 update: n/a
2020 update: n/a
2021 update: 3
2022 update: n/a
2023 update: n/a
2024 update: 4